Refugees' Religion Doesn't Matter

It has been suggested that the United States should accept certain refugees fleeing ISIS, specifically Christian refugees. Accepting or rejecting refugees based on their religion has been called un-American. The point isn't whether refugees are Christians, but rather that they are a group singled out by ISIS for extreme persecution, not unlike the Yazidis.

There is another group of religious refugees that was subject to extreme persecution by their home nation and we closed the door to them as well. Large numbers of Jews were fleeing Germany before World War II and we turned them away. It was un-American to not accept them then and it is un-American to not accept Syrians now.